Jeff Osborne

Associate Professor of English

"Every class is a mini-revolution in potential. The best moments in a semester are
those when we hear the questions a text poses to us in the provocative way that texts
speak, the moments when we—all involved—confront our own limitations and must seek
out ways to overcome them. My goal in the courses I teach is to create a classroom
environment in which the questions literature asks us can be heard in such a way that
we can effectively respond to them."